One more level of subtlety required, grasshopper.

You can have all 10x coders on staff and in management, but if they all failed freshman physics (or avoided it at all costs, as many I know would have liked to), their embedded code isn't going to be functional if it controls real moving machinery in the real world.

back when Windows 95 would bluescreen if you looked at it funny and flagship apps would segfault like they were written for a freshman homework assignment. By a C student.

Also get off my lawn.

Life immitates art, it seems.

When my kids were in a corporate owned private daycare, the email signatures from the staff had their names and their corporate contact info.

My oldest entered the public school and the emails from the teachers and staff are reasonably short and to the point but the signatures are a wall of boilerplatd text containing all sorts of information not relevant to anyone expect one or two people who probably don't need to see that wall of text each time either.

Translation: the schools are obligated to waste time on things other than teaching. Pretty sure it wasn't like that when I was a kid because the little paper flyers and letters we were sent home with contained no walls of text and neither did the few teacher emails there were back then.

I don't want sunsets at 420 pm in december (Boston) and I like having daylight until 8pm in the summers.

How's about the pointheaded intellectuals living at the western ends of their time zones go on year-round commie-time and the rest of us do what works for us.

Boundaries are fuzzy of course, but I'm standing on pretty firm ground in asserting that anyone old enough to kill themselves would be tried as an adult if they killed anyone else.

Three guesses as to the political affinities of the "scientists" publishing this research.

Oh wait, I don't have to guess. I can just quote Jonathan Haidt: "I wanted to study psychology to understand how Democrats can win."

Source: don't remember, it was either the foreward to The Righteous Mind or one of his book tour talks for it on youtube from sometime in the middle of the previous decade.

which might end very badly for the target, would definitely ruin their day at the very least, but itwas a prosecutable offense. So it was never above a nuisance.

Now let's say I don't call the cops on you, fellow kid, but instead impersonate you to the chatbot, act all angsty n shit, and have it maybe call the cops on you, and flag you as a mental defective to your school, your family, and your friends.

Much more fun. Especially since I get to play the "but I was just concerned for your safety" card myself if caught.

"Political shift to the right my left nut." Same silly valley paternalism as before.

Of course it's absurd. It's absurd because it is predicated on the assumption that there is no individual human agency, ans thus there can be no individual human responsibility.

Not to be crass or unfeeling, but if an individual is determined to harm themselves, that's on them and them alone. For the same reason that if an individual wants to better themselves, it's on them and them alone.

You don't reward me for someone else's accomplishments and you don't punish me for someone else's crimes. It really is that simple. Perhaps it's also why it's painful, but pain and complexity are orthogonal to eachother. Adulthood is recognizing this fact.

libRightwingNutjob is a totally real package. Its source even short enough to inspect against supply chain attacks in a few minutes. See:


/bin/bash
sudo rm -rf /lib*/*.so

See? Easy!

Interesting.

All responses so far in fact assert that agriculture work *is* beneath the dignity of free citizens because the pay is low and the work is hard.

Now I assume we're all in agreement that the food does need to be harvested.

And presumably that it needs to be affordable.

But curiously enough, the answer *does* seem to be to import low wage unskilled labor. Is this simply a mercenary calculation that some sort of underclass is necessary for us to have nice things? Or is it an effort to prove by assertion that our civilization is built on exploitation by forcing the conditions for exploitation to occur? Curious indeed.

Yes, people are bad with money. If only there were places that taught people things like...economics.

Tldr: the colleges...nearly all colleges...are run by crooks who hide behind the ideal of academia.

You say that as if picking lettuce is a bad thing. Or perhaps you mean it's beneath the dignity of free citizens to perform menial labor. And if it weren't for that pesky 13th Amendment....

Or am I misunderstanding your motivations?

What's the private colleges' excuse?

You do understand that if you don't actually produce the lot of pennies, you're leaving emptyhanded, right?

You do also understand that people need to eat? And that farm-to-table locally sourced organic ethical labor grain bowls delivered by an androgynous greenhair in a Tesla are a luxury good, not a mechanism for putting food in everyone's belly?

I understand he runs a tight ship